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George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

Autor(a) de Pygmalion

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Renowned literary genius George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. He later moved to London and educated himself at the British Museum while several of his novels were published in small socialist magazines. Shaw later became a music critic for the Star and for the World. He mostrar mais was a drama critic for the Saturday Review and later began to have some of his early plays produced. Shaw wrote the plays Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion, which was later adapted as My Fair Lady in both the musical and film form. He also transformed his works into screenplays for Saint Joan, How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, and Major Barbara. Shaw won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. George Bernard Shaw died on November 2, 1950 at Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion (1913) — Autor — 6,685 exemplares
Saint Joan (1923) 2,283 exemplares
Man and Superman (1903) 1,732 exemplares
Major Barbara (1905) 1,165 exemplares
Arms and the Man (1894) — Autor — 1,087 exemplares
Heartbreak House (1919) 693 exemplares
Caesar and Cleopatra (1898) 617 exemplares
Plays Unpleasant (1898) 584 exemplares
Plays Pleasant (1898) — Autor — 551 exemplares
Plays by George Bernard Shaw (1960) 495 exemplares
Pygmalion and My Fair Lady (1975) 476 exemplares
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays (2004) 466 exemplares
Androcles and the Lion (1913) — Autor — 464 exemplares
Candida (1897) — Autor — 387 exemplares
Three Plays for Puritans (1901) 376 exemplares
Back to Methuselah (1921) — Prefácio, algumas edições355 exemplares
The Doctor's Dilemma (1906) 340 exemplares
Mrs. Warren's Profession (1898) 326 exemplares
The Perfect Wagnerite (1898) — Autor — 266 exemplares
The Devil's Disciple (1897) 260 exemplares
Seven Plays by Bernard Shaw (1646) 250 exemplares
An Unsocial Socialist (1884) 204 exemplares
The Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw (1937) 202 exemplares
Two Plays for Puritans (1966) 189 exemplares
The Apple Cart (1928) 187 exemplares
Pygmalion and Major Barbara (1907) 161 exemplares
The Portable Bernard Shaw (1977) 158 exemplares
Pygmalion and Candida (1894) 131 exemplares
Everybody's political what's what? (1944) 126 exemplares
Shaw on Music (1955) — Autor — 124 exemplares
The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891) 107 exemplares
Nine Plays (1931) 107 exemplares
Cashel Byron's Profession (1899) 105 exemplares
Misalliance (1910) 84 exemplares
Major Barbara: A Screen Version (1944) 81 exemplares
John Bull's Other Island (1904) 81 exemplares
Shaw on Shakespeare (1961) — Autor — 63 exemplares
Fabian Essays in Socialism (1891) — Editor — 62 exemplares
Major Critical Essays (1931) 62 exemplares
Seven One-Act Plays (1957) 60 exemplares
Love Among the Artists (1900) 60 exemplares
You Never Can Tell (1896) 60 exemplares
The Millionairess (1936) 58 exemplares
Getting Married (1908) 56 exemplares
Don Juan in Hell (1931) 55 exemplares
Pygmalion [1938 film] (1938) — Screenplay — 54 exemplares
Pygmalion. A Romance in Five Acts (1990) — Autor — 54 exemplares
Androcles and the Lion / Overruled / Pygmalion (1910) — Autor — 53 exemplares
Bernard Shaw: Selected Plays (1949) 49 exemplares
The Irrational Knot (1905) 49 exemplares
Selected Short Plays (1988) 46 exemplares
Plays: pleasant and unpleasant (1905) 45 exemplares
The Philanderer (1898) 39 exemplares
Sixteen Self Sketches (1949) 38 exemplares
Plays Extravagant (Shaw Library) (1600) 36 exemplares
Prefaces by Bernard Shaw (1938) 35 exemplares
On War (2010) 30 exemplares
The Man of Destiny (1897) 29 exemplares
How He Lied to Her Husband (1904) 28 exemplares
Dear Mr Shaw: Selections from Bernard Shaw's Postbag (1987) — Autor — 28 exemplares
Widowers' Houses (1892) 28 exemplares
Plays Political (1986) 26 exemplares
On Going To Church (1905) 26 exemplares
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900) 25 exemplares
Four Plays : Unknown editions (1953) 24 exemplares
Too True To Be Good (1932) 23 exemplares
Music in London (1949) — Autor — 23 exemplares
London Music in 1888-89 (1937) 23 exemplares
On Photography (1989) 21 exemplares
Socialism for Millionaires (1921) 21 exemplares
Fanny's First Play (1911) 21 exemplares
Translations and Tomfooleries (1926) 21 exemplares
Shaw on religion (1967) 20 exemplares
Mrs. Warren's Profession [1972 TV play] (2006) — Original play — 20 exemplares
Selected plays, with prefaces (1948) 20 exemplares
Heartbreak House and Misalliance (1995) 20 exemplares
Immaturity (1879) 19 exemplares
How to become a musical critic (1960) — Editor — 18 exemplares
Our theatres in the nineties (1932) 18 exemplares
Press Cuttings (1909) 17 exemplares
The Millionairess (BBC Play of the Month) [1972 TV episode] (2006) — Playwright — 16 exemplares
Shaw on theatre (1998) 16 exemplares
Geneva (1938) 16 exemplares
Augustus Does His Bit (1916) 16 exemplares
On Language (1963) 15 exemplares
Great Catherine (1913) 15 exemplares
Advice to a Young Critic (1956) 15 exemplares
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1910) 15 exemplares
Essays in Fabian Socialism (1931) 14 exemplares
The Crime of Imprisonment (1925) 14 exemplares
O'Flaherty, V.C. (1917) 14 exemplares
Overruled (1912) — Autor — 14 exemplares
Caesar and Cleopatra [1945 film] — Screenwriter — 14 exemplares
Die Aussichten des Christentums (1952) 13 exemplares
Last plays (1985) — Autor — 13 exemplares
The Inca of Perusalem (1919) 13 exemplares
Shaw; an autobiography (1970) 13 exemplares
Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress (1918) 12 exemplares
The matter with Ireland (2001) 12 exemplares
Comedias escogidas (1956) 12 exemplares
The Plays of Shaw (26 Plays) (2009) 11 exemplares
Bernard Shaw: A Prose Anthology (1965) 11 exemplares
Music in London 1890-94. Vol.2 — Autor — 11 exemplares
The Sanity of Art (1895) 11 exemplares
The Miraculous Revenge (1921) 10 exemplares
The Complete Prefaces: 1930-50 (1997) 10 exemplares
The Shorter Plays of Bernard Shaw (1960) 10 exemplares
Village Wooing (1934) 10 exemplares
The Admirable Bashville (1903) 9 exemplares
The Six of Calais (1934) 9 exemplares
Shaw on Dickens (1985) 9 exemplares
Selected Prose (1952) 9 exemplares
Music in London 1890-94 Volume 3 (1949) — Autor — 9 exemplares
Pen Portraits and Reviews (1932) 8 exemplares
Buoyant Billions (1950) 8 exemplares
Platform and pulpit (1962) 8 exemplares
Cymbeline Refinished (1937) 8 exemplares
The Glimpse of Reality (1926) 8 exemplares
Dort Oyun (2004) 7 exemplares
Ecrits sur la musique, 1876-1950 (1994) — Autor — 7 exemplares
Pygmalion & other plays (2021) 7 exemplares
The Fascinating Foundling (1926) 7 exemplares
On the Rocks (1933) 7 exemplares
The Music-Cure (1914) 7 exemplares
Collected letters (1965) 6 exemplares
Teatro Das Idéias, O (1997) 5 exemplares
Obras selectas (1901) 5 exemplares
Shaw für Boshafte (2006) 5 exemplares
Tales (1964) 5 exemplares
Les pensées (1992) 5 exemplares
Dieciséis esbozos de mí mismo (2002) 5 exemplares
SANTA JUANA (Spanish Edition) (2013) 4 exemplares
Gülen Düsünceler (2015) 4 exemplares
Helden; Candida (1984) 4 exemplares
Farfetched Fables 4 exemplares
Shakes Versus Shav (1949) 4 exemplares
The Art of Rehearsal (1981) 4 exemplares
Klassische Stücke (1985) 4 exemplares
Saggi autobiografici (1949) 4 exemplares
Maxims for Revolutionists (2013) 4 exemplares
Ironias y Verdades (1999) 4 exemplares
Seven Classic Plays (2012) 4 exemplares
Avertissement sur le mariage (1987) 4 exemplares
Pygmalion. A Romance in Five Acts (1990) — Autor — 4 exemplares
Nine answers (1988) 3 exemplares
Shaw On Vivisection (1949) 3 exemplares
Ten Short Plays (1960) 3 exemplares
Bernard Shaw on Cinema (1997) 3 exemplares
Näidendid 3 exemplares
The Socialism of Shaw (2011) 3 exemplares
Aforizmalar (2024) 3 exemplares
Why She Would Not 3 exemplares
Morris as I knew him 2 exemplares
Pigmalião 2 exemplares
Három színdarab 2 exemplares
Flyleaves 2 exemplares
L'ALTRA ISOLA DI JOHN BULL (1957) 2 exemplares
Пьесы 2 exemplares
Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek : Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion (2012) — Text — 2 exemplares
Ruskin's politics (1921) 2 exemplares
Teatro 2 exemplares
Beauty's Duty 2 exemplares
Selected One Act Plays Volume 1 (1965) 2 exemplares
A Prose Anthology (1965) 2 exemplares
Pygmalion 2 exemplares
MEETING AT THE SPHINX 2 exemplares
Shaw: Selected One-Act Plays (1968) 2 exemplares
7 Stücke 2 exemplares
Matrimonio desigual 2 exemplares
The critical shaw : on music (2016) 1 exemplar
A manifesto (Fabian tracts) (1884) 1 exemplar
Helden 1 exemplar
Künstlerliebe (1928) 1 exemplar
Der Amateur-Sozialist (1887) 1 exemplar
Frau Warrens Beruf 1 exemplar
PIGMALEÃO 1 exemplar
Opere 1 exemplar
Las Quintaesencias 1 exemplar
Pigmalione 1 exemplar
Imprisonment, (1924) 1 exemplar
Drame (2005) 1 exemplar
Lieve Dorothée 1 exemplar
Shaw on Censorship 1 exemplar
Cäsar und Cleopatra : Histor. Drama — Autor — 1 exemplar
Akıllı Bir Kadına Rehber (2019) 1 exemplar
Devrimciye Aforizmalar (2015) 1 exemplar
Karijera : roman 1 exemplar
Новеллы 1 exemplar
3 Plays by Bernard Shaw (1973) 1 exemplar
Hombre superhombre 1 exemplar
The Music Cure (2005) 1 exemplar
Saint Joan Annotated (2020) 1 exemplar
1941 1 exemplar
2001 1 exemplar
Színművek 1 exemplar
SEZAR VE KLEOPATRA 1 exemplar
Shaw's Dramatic Criticism (1959) 1 exemplar
Cleopatra 1 exemplar
O muzici 1 exemplar
La cavalletta 1 exemplar
Szmek (2008) 1 exemplar
Lica i naličja 1 exemplar
Manuale del rivoluzionario (2014) 1 exemplar
Three Shorter Plays (1968) 1 exemplar
Sidney Trefusis 1 exemplar
Teatru (Romanian?) 1 exemplar
shaw films 1 exemplar
Drammi 1 exemplar
Hat színmű 1 exemplar
Imprisonment 1 exemplar
Das Inselreich 1 exemplar
Collected Plays 1 exemplar
Stücke und Komödien (1976) 1 exemplar
With Memories of Oscar Wilde (1916) 1 exemplar
Die Lustspiele II 1 exemplar
Major Barbara, etc 1 exemplar
Izbrannoe (1999) 1 exemplar
PIGMALIÓN 1 exemplar
Three modern plays 1 exemplar
Pygmalion/Candida 1 exemplar
Short Plays 1 exemplar
Santa Juana 1 exemplar
Избранное 1 exemplar
Teatro Completo II 1 exemplar
Teatro Completo I 1 exemplar
Lustspiele (1984) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Great Expectations (1861) — Introdução, algumas edições38,215 exemplares
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) — Contribuidor, algumas edições10,721 exemplares
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições915 exemplares
My Fair Lady [1964 film] (1964) — Play — 711 exemplares
Six Great Modern Plays (1956) — Contribuidor — 468 exemplares
Sagittarius Rising (1936) — Contribuidor, algumas edições382 exemplares
Eight Great Comedies (1958) — Contribuidor — 348 exemplares
Great Irish Tales of Horror: A Treasury of Fear (1995) — Contribuidor — 322 exemplares
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908) — Introdução, algumas edições253 exemplares
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contribuidor — 249 exemplares
The Literary Cat (1977) — Contribuidor — 241 exemplares
Oscar Wilde (1916)algumas edições204 exemplares
Love Letters (1996) — Contribuidor — 180 exemplares
Masterpieces of the Drama (1966) — Contribuidor — 178 exemplares
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — Contribuidor — 152 exemplares
The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Work (2010) — Contribuidor — 142 exemplares
Major British Writers, Volumes I and II (1954) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
The World of Mathematics, Volume 3 (1955) — Contribuidor — 116 exemplares
Four Modern Plays (First Series) (1944) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
Laurel British Drama: The Twentieth Century (1965) — Contribuidor, algumas edições88 exemplares
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900 (2000) — Contribuidor — 79 exemplares
Great Stories by Nobel Prize Winners (1959) — Contribuidor — 76 exemplares
Churchill: By His Contemporaries (1953) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
She's All That [1999 film] (1999) — Autor — 71 exemplares
Contemporary Drama: 15 Plays (1959) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
The Theatre Guild Anthology (1936) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
The Genius of the Irish Theater (1960) — Contribuidor — 61 exemplares
The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying, and Living On (1997) — Contribuidor — 60 exemplares
The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1981) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
My Fair Lady: Original 1956 Broadway Cast Recording (1956) — Original play — 52 exemplares
Great Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery and Madness (2004) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
The Faber Book of Christmas (1996) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Bernard Shaw (1931) — Posfácio, algumas edições46 exemplares
Contemporary Drama - 11 Plays (1956) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
Modern and Contemporary Drama (1958) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
Twenty One-Act Plays: An Anthology for Amateur Performing Groups (1978) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Genius of the Later English Theater (1962) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
My Fair Lady: Penguin Longman Readers, Level 3 (1750) — Original story — 36 exemplares
Ten Great One Act Plays (1968) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
The miraculous birth of language (1941) — Prefácio — 33 exemplares
Pigmalió (1986) — Autor, algumas edições32 exemplares
15 International One-Act Plays (1969) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (1998) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
14 great plays (1977) — Contribuidor — 31 exemplares
A Treasury of the Theatre: From Henrik Ibsen to Eugène Ionesco (1960) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Critical Essays (1969) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Nine Great Plays: From Aeschylus to Eliot (Revised Edition) (1950) — Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Classic Essays in English (1961) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
The World of Law, Volume II : The Law as Literature (1960) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Three Plays by Brieux (1913) — Prefácio, algumas edições; Prefácio, algumas edições19 exemplares
Arms and the Man [1989 TV episode] (2006) — Play — 16 exemplares
Pygmalion (BBC Play of the Month) [1973 TV episode] (2006) — Original play — 14 exemplares
The Millionairess [1960 film] (2000) — Original play — 13 exemplares
Heartbreak House (BBC Play of the Month) [1977 TV episode] (1977) — Original play — 11 exemplares
A Cavalcade of Collier's (1959) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
5 Modern English Plays (1966) 7 exemplares
Jitta's Atonement (1926) — Tradutor, algumas edições7 exemplares
Bachelor's Quarters: Stories from Two Worlds (1944) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
The Devil's Disciple [1987 TV play] — Original play — 6 exemplares
Saint Joan [1957 film] (1987) — Original play — 6 exemplares
The Ambassador (1961) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Major Barbara [1941 film] (1988) — Original play — 5 exemplares
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
An introduction to drama (1951) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Famous Stories of Five Centuries (1934) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Salt and His Circle (1951) — Prefácio, algumas edições4 exemplares
Vivienne Westwood : Spring Summer 2008 (2008) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Androcles and the Lion [1952 film] — Original play — 3 exemplares
The Man of Destiny [1981 TV movie] — Original play — 2 exemplares
Pygmalion [1937 film] (1937) — Original play — 1 exemplar

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With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his dramatization of the moral conflicts between youthful idealism and economic reality, promiscuity and marriage, and the duties of women to others and to themselves. His first play, Widowers' Houses, depicts Harry Trench's dilemma on learning that the inheritance of his fiancée comes from her father's income as a slum landlord. In The Philanderer, charismatic Leonard Charteris proposes marriage to Grace, while he is still involved with the beautiful Julia Craven--who is not inclined to give him up so easily. And in Mrs. Warren's Profession, Vivie Warren is forced to reconsider her own future when she discovers that her mother's immoral earnings funded her genteel upbringing.… (mais)
 
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Alfred Charles Ward Editor, Introduction
Harald Mueller Translator
Louis Kronenberger Introduction
John A. Bertolini Introduction
Michael Holroyd Introduction
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Annie Besant Contributor
Graham Wallas Contributor
Sidney Webb Contributor
Sydney Olivier Contributor
Hubert Bland Contributor
Germano Facetti Cover designer
Tom Baker Actor
Béatrice Vierne Translator
Anne Chattaway Translator
John Tyler Tuttle Contributor
Georges Liébert Contributor
Henry Morris Contributor
James Hynes Contributor
Mirko Jurak Afterword
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Lucile Heming Koshland Associated Name
L. Carr Editor
Tim Davis Illustrator
Milton Glaser Cover artist
Jim Manis Editor
Eduard Coenraads Translator
Antonio Agresti Translator
Laura Whyte Narrator
Julio Broutá Translator
Jože Munda Contributor
Nadja Furlan Designer
Rolf Staudt Cover designer
Hannah Gordon Narrator
Brian Bartle Illustrator
Paolo Bertinetti Introduction
Daniel Craig Cover artist
Feliks Topolski Illustrator
Willy Fleckhaus Cover designer
David New Narrator
David Burke Narrator
Michel Habart Translator
Nicholas Grene Introduction
John Tydeman Director
Andrea Neuhaus Kommentator
Bengt Anderberg Translator
Henry Popkin Introduction
Brooks Atkinson Introduction
N.R. Teitel Introduction
Howard Coster Photographer
John Farleigh Illustrator
William Archer Contributor
G.K. Chesterton Contributor
E.J. (Editor) West Contributor
Michael Quinn Contributor
David Hare Introduction
Corrado Pavolini Translator
Tom Amandes Narrator
Polly Toynbee Foreword
Paul Gutrecht Narrator
Robin Sachs Narrator
Basil Langton Narrator
Aubrey Beardsley Cover artist
Edmund Gillon Cover designer
Edward Gorey Cover artist
Roger Rees Narrator
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Asa Briggs Introduction
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Estatísticas

Obras
681
Also by
85
Membros
28,446
Popularidade
#710
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
364
ISBN
2,145
Línguas
21
Marcado como favorito
89

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